Does UV inactivation of virus destroy epitopes within the sample?

02 June 2020 0 6K Report

Hi All. If I UV treat culture supernatants to inactivate virus, will it affect/alter/destroy epitopes that I may want to analyze by Luminex or ELISA? Cheers.

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